How can I experience Yamuna Body Rolling?
Workshop: Stay tuned for the next workshop!
New Weekly Class Starting Soon: Tuesdays 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Jade Integrative Health
7 Week Series for $100. Yamuna Balls are provided in the class. Call the Jade Integrative Health 207-773-5778 to register!
What is Yamuna Body Rolling?
Yamuna Body Rolling is a healing and fitness system which begins with bone stimulation and systematically works muscles from origin toward insertion to lengthen and realign the body freeing fascia and other structural restriction to ultimately increase range of motion, improve posture and prevent injury.
The ultimate goal of practicing Yamuna Body Rolling is to remove as many physical restrictions from the body as possible, so that all body parts function as optimally as possible.
Benefits:
-Tones and elongates muscles
-Improves alignment
-Increases circulation
-Develops and maintains core strength
-Stimulates nerve roots
-Stimulates organs
-Increases metabolism
-Relaxes the nervous system
-Expands the lungs and deepens breathing
-Increases body awareness
Basic Principles of Yamuna Body Rolling:
Restriction, pain and discomfort are caused by lack of space.
When a person has pain due to sprain, muscle spasm, or nerve impingement, there is compression or restriction in the affected area of the body. In general, whenever there is pain, contraction, tightness, inflammation, atrophy or nerve pain, there will be lack of space. The goal of YBR is to create space by restoring length to the involved muscles. Creating optimum space throughout the body restores full range of motion in all joints.
The body has a natural logic and order.
We work with the body’s own natural logic and order in two ways:
- First, muscles release from origin toward insertion. We stimulate a muscle at it’s origin, which elongates the muscle fibers toward their insertion point, showing the muscle how much space it has to expand into. A major component of YBR’s uniqueness is that it educates each muscle to release and take it’s optimal space.
- Second, we work systematically, starting with bone, then working tendons, and finally muscle. We start with the larger muscle groups, then work through the smaller ones.
Stimulation of bone
Bone stimulation is another unique component of this work. We always begin by stimulating bone, and then roll out into tendon and finally muscle. Stimulation of bone is the reason why YBR can rapidly create positive structural changes. Applying direct pressure to a bone will initiate release of the tendons of all the muscles that have attachments anywhere on that bone. Release of tendon will in turn release muscle.
To apply this stimulation, you place the ball at the muscle’s origin point on a bone and wait. The pressure of the body laying over the ball increases circulation to the tendon, which begins to soften and initiate release in its muscle.
Through bone stimulation, YBR can help treat osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and other bone problems.
Traction creates space.
Exerting traction on a muscle tells the muscle what direction to release toward. In YBR, the weight of the body pressing down into the ball applies traction at the muscle’s origin, awakening its memory of its proper function and triggering it to release in its natural direction from origin to insertion. In this way, the muscle elongates through its entire length, creating space.
If you’re interested in setting up a private session or a semi-private session with a friend, please email me: maurahintlian@gmail.com.
